Zero Knowledge

Hardware for ZKPs & VDFs with Supranational

Mar 3, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
The Zero Knowledge Podcast - A Deep Dive Into Hardware
02:48 • 2min
3
I'm Simon Peppers and I've Been at Intel for 20 Years and I Was on the Server Architecture Team at Intel.
04:58 • 2min
4
How Long Has Super National Been Around?
06:44 • 2min
5
How Do You Work With Blockchain?
08:27 • 2min
6
What Is Elliptic Curve Cryptography?
10:06 • 2min
7
How Fast Can RSA VDFs Go?
11:48 • 2min
8
The Challenges of Scaling a CPU Implementation
13:19 • 2min
9
RSA VDF - What's the Biggest Bottleneck?
15:45 • 2min
10
Rsa 2k
17:30 • 2min
11
GP GPU, General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit?
19:43 • 3min
12
ASICs, GPUs, FPGAs, ASIC, and So On.
22:49 • 2min
13
What's the Difference Between Software and Hardware in FPGAs?
24:52 • 3min
14
Is There a Difference in Testing Cryptography Primitives?
28:01 • 2min
15
Do You Have to Do Formal Verification Over the Whole Design?
30:15 • 2min
16
The Pros and Cons of Being a Startup in This Space
32:13 • 3min
17
Open Source Hardware Is Getting Pretty Interesting
34:50 • 2min
18
Open Source Hardware - Is There a Linux Evolution?
36:20 • 2min
19
Snarks
37:51 • 2min
20
Accelerating Zero Knowledge Proofs
39:58 • 3min
21
Parallelism in Proof Generation
43:03 • 2min
22
Using a GPU to Speed Up Field Arithmetic
44:56 • 2min
23
Implementing Field Operations on a GPU?
47:05 • 2min
24
Do You See a ZK Proving ASIC?
48:36 • 3min
25
Is There a ZKP Specific Enclave on People's Phones?
51:18 • 2min
26
Getting the Performance Out of the BLS Signature Library
53:11 • 2min
27
Do You See More Custom Hardware Coming Up for Cryptography?
54:42 • 3min
28
NVIDIA Blocks Ethereum Mining
57:28 • 2min
29
ASICs - Isn't It a GPU?
59:16 • 2min